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quarta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2014

2014 will mark the 19th trip to the Algarve Cup for the U.S. Women´s National Soccer Team, who have won the tournament nine times, including an unprecedented three straight championships from 2003-05. This year's tournament will run from March 5-12 across the Algarve.

segunda-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2014

Maria von Trapp was the third child of Captain Von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp and the last surviving member of the original Trapp Family Singers whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for The Sound of Music. She has died at the age of 99.

Maria lived in Stowe, Vermont, the same town her family settled in when they arrived in the United States in 1942.

sexta-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2014

On 21 February 1952 the police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, shot and killed students who were demonstrating to have their language recognised as a national language in that country. In honour of the deceased students the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), established in 1999 The international Mother Language Day, which has been celebrated across the globe since February 2000.﻿

Its aim is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as multilingualism.

quinta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2014

Portugal was considered one of the 20 most “green” countries in the world according to the Environment Perfomance Index, which evaluates the performance of 178 countries.

Madeira, Portugal

The study was developed in Yale and Columbia universities in partnership with the World Economic Forum and ranks how well countries perfom on high- priority environmental issues, in two broad policy areas:

Tomorrow my 9th grade students are going to read a text about Yellowstone Park. It brought me back memories when together with my family we crossed the USA from east to west, (for one whole month ) - "the trip of my life"- as I usually say.

Yellowstone was the first American park created in 1872. It is the size of Belgium. There you will find “ stately mountains, bison-specked meadows, tumbling streams, a sky-blue lake and wildlife beyond counting” (Bill Bryson. A Short History of Nearly Everything) .

One of the attractions are the geysers - the most famous is Old Faithful , and the Mammoth Hot Springs.

segunda-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2014

Did you know that 57 million primary-aged children worldwide do not have the opportunity to attend school? Additionally, 69 million adolescents are not able to get a quality education. And of the many children who are fortunate enough to have some formal education, 250 million do not have basic literacy and math skills. These are alarming figures, because data shows that a good education can lead to a better life and a stronger economy.

Last July on Malala Day, the UN’s call to action for governments, donors, organizations and individuals to support education was made stronger by the voices of youth from around the world. Their message was very clear: education must be at the forefront of the public agenda for both individual nations and the international development community.

The photographic age began in 1839, just two years after the 18-year-old Queen Victoria ascended to the throne. The Queen and her consort Prince Albert embraced the new medium. By 1842 they were collecting photographs and spending time together mounting family portraits into albums, and exchanging photographs as gifts at birthdays and Christmas.

A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography is a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles that explores Queen Victoria's lifelong devotion to photography, and includes more than 40 photographs by some of the most influential and prolific photographers of the 19th century.

The invention of the new medium of photography was announced first in Paris by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, then in London by William Henry Fox Talbot—at the beginning of 1839.

The Great Exhibition opened in 1851 at the Crystal Palace, London. For many people in attendance, this was the first time they had seen a photograph. The early 1850s witnessed the rise of the photographic exhibition in Britain and the beginning of photographic societies around the country. Victoria and Albert's patronage and support were important to its rise in popularity.

Over the course of her long reign, the queen was photographed as loving mother, devoted wife, grieving widow, and powerful sovereign. She was the first British monarch to have her life fully recorded by the camera, and her portraits became emblematic of an entire age.